The ocean the Titanic sailed through just over 100 years ago was very different from the one we swim in today.
Global warming is increasing ocean temperatures and harming marine food webs. Nitrogen run-off from fertilizers is causing coastal dead zones. A McGill-led international research team...
Perhaps New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith should have known that his name would be mired in controversy when the Jets took him in the second round -- after all, the Jets are far more adept at collecting headlines than wins lately. But Smith, who is now competing with embattled Mark...
The NFL is full of stories featuring players who grew out of their young-and-dumb pasts to become reasonably responsible citizens. And then, there are those guys who will just never get it. It's safe to assume that former Detroit Lions receiver Titus Young is one of the guys who will never get...
More than half of British businesses do not have a defibrillator, show poll results released this week - despite the impact the device has on cardiac arrest survival rates. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) commissioned a survey of 1,000 business decision-makers across the...
Maybe Bill Murray needed a little help from that ol' gopher. The beloved Caddyshack star grabbed some clubs and revisited his Carl Spackler days (for the uninitiated, Carl's the...
Ovuline, a leading company that helps females track their fertility and pregnancy online, has just announced that it raised $1.4 million in seed money, led by Lightbank, from LionBird, Launch Capital, and Techstars founder and CEO David Cohen. Ovuline can now carry on with its creation of its...
Sitting around for long periods raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and premature death, even for people who have the amount of daily physical activity recommended by health professionals. These were the conclusions of a large piece of research covering nearly...
New research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found that a popular class of diabetes drug increases people's risk of developing bladder cancer. According to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the drug that accounts...
On Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center, the BEL13VE in Miracles Gala was held to help benefit the Jack Jablonski Fund. Jablonski, you'll recall, was the St. Benilde-St. Margaret's (Minn.) School*hockey player*paralyzed during a December game and has since received support from all corners of...
No. 1 Star: Travis Zajac, New Jersey Devils
Zajac's goal at 5:39 of overtime sent the Devils to a Game 7 on Thursday against the Florida Panthers, winning Game 6 by a 3-2 count. Zajac beat goalie Scott Clemmensen after Ilya Kovalchuk found a seam in the Florida defense with a pass. Zajac...
Somehow the vision of a room full of naked guys practicing yoga intrigues me and grosses me out at the same time. It's not like naked yoga is a new trend--we've been hearing about it for the last year or so. We've even heard about how this could have been the demise of Kim Kardashian's lengthy...
Scientists have tested a trial vaccine that protects rhesus monkeys against infection from a potent form of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a distant relative of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in humans. Monkeys that received the vaccine were more than 80% less likely to become...
Breast cancer survivors whose starch intake is above average have a greater risk of cancer recurrence compared to other breast cancer survivors, researchers from the University of California, San Diego explained at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Dec. 6-10, 2011. The...
The authors of a unique and revealing study of children in foster care receiving antipsychotic medication are calling for better oversight of such medications for youths. A main finding from this research is that children in foster care were just as likely to be prescribed more than one...
People who are exposed to higher levels of traffic pollution have a higher risk of heart attack for about six hours, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). The authors say that those with diagnosed heart disease should...
...or do sports? I have mild pain to the top side of my foot right where the "knuckle" or top of the arch is. I think it's due to lifting too much while doing calf raises. It doesn't hurt to walk but when I stretch my foot or when I'm sitting still I feel some mild pain. Should I avoid...
Mark Sanchez's fashion statement in the September issue of GQ*was labeled by Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers as "embarrassing,"but there is nothing to blush over with his current apparel dabble. Earlier this week, the Jets quarterback launched a line of t-shirts to aid The Benefit Fund, which...
People lose the ability to detect the taste of iron in drinking water with advancing age, raising concern that older people may be at risk for an unhealthy over-exposure to iron, Virginia Tech engineers are reporting in results they term "unique." The study appears in the American Chemical...
National Sleep Therapy, a provider of equipment and services to patients with sleep apnea that uses a "closed-loop" model of follow up care with patients throughout the duration of sleep therapy, has announced the release of new data that indicate that 88.5 percent of the patients they serve...